Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Regarding fixing the issue at hand on Windows, I think Python should use the corresponding win32 API for getting the hostname: GetComputerNameEx().
It supports Unicode, so the encoding issue doesn't arise. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724301(v=VS.85).aspx for details. This also solves the platform.uname() issue mentioned here, since the uname() emulation for Windows relies on socket.gethostname() to determine the node name. FWIW: Glib C does the reverse... The GNU C library implements gethostname() as a library function that calls uname(2) and copies up to len bytes from the returned nodename field into name. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9377> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
